The Bardavon 1869 Opera House will screen the 1960 classic Western 'The Magnificent Seven,' directed by John Sturges, tonight at 7:30.

Written by

Larry Robinson
For the Poughkeepsie Journal

From the 1930s onward, Wyatt Earp's been portrayed on the silver screen as a shy, celibate paragon of justice and virtue, taming cow towns and mining camps, doing it only for the gratitude of apple-cheeked orphans and virginal schoolmarms.

The real Wyatt Earp was a horse thief, gambler, possibly a bouncer in a brothel, socially ambitious and truly dangerous to mess with. ...